Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Time's Arrow, Part II (1992)

Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : I wish... I wish time would've allowed me to know you better.

  Samuel Clemens : Well, you'll just have to read my books. What I am is pretty much there.

  [Picard then turns towards Guinan] 

  Guinan : I'll see you in 500 years, Picard.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : And I'll see you... in a few minutes.

• Guinan : You know an awful lot about me.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Hmm. Believe me, in the future, the tables will be turned.

  Guinan : Do we become friends?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Oh - it goes far beyond friendship.

• Guinan : Do you know me?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Very well.

  Guinan : Do I know you?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Not yet. But you will.

• [Picard, disguised as a workman, slips a small electronic detector into a wall sconce in a hospital ward] 

  Dr. Appollinaire : Just what're you doing with those lamps?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Replacing the burners. City ordinance. Makes it safer, in case of earthquake.

  Dr. Appollinaire : There hasn't been an earthquake here in thirty years.

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : [picks up his toolbox]  Well, that takes care of this ward. Time to be moving on.

  [he leaves] 

  Dr. Appollinaire : [scoffs]  Earthquakes.

  [spoken in San Francisco in 1893] 

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : Captain's log, stardate 46001.3 - Everyone who should be in the 19th century is safely there, and those who should be in the 24th are here. Mr. Data has been restored to us, head and all, and Samuel Clemens will write the books he was to have written after our encounter.

• Guinan : [seeing Data's severed head in the cavern]  What's that?

  Captain Jean-Luc Picard : That's history fulfilling itself.

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard : We know how you move back and forth through time. My crew have returned to the 24th century to destroy your transport site on Devidia II.

  Alien Nurse : Destroy it? Your weapons will only amplify the time distortion. You will annihilate your own world.